![]() She would always remember what she’d been wearing that night, too. Some worked there, in the shops and arcades and restaurants and booths. And closing the park, even briefly, would drive most of Santa Luisa’s teenagers stark, raving mad. Good thing, too, Tess often thought, since without The Boardwalk half the population of their little town would be unemployed. Thanks to a mild climate, The Boardwalk was open year-round. She had lived in Santa Luisa all of her life and she was used to the sounds of The Boardwalk, the amusement park lining the oceanfront of the Southern California community. ![]() ![]() And fries and a large Coke, at a stand not far from where the multicolored cars were making their labored, rattle-clackety climb up the last and most treacherous leg of their journey. ![]() And it sent a dozen other roller-coaster riders and ten passersby on the ground to the Santa Luisa Medical Center in screaming ambulances.īefore the crash, Tess was buying a hot dog. The crash killed Dade Lewis, destroyed Sheree Buchanan’s face, and separated Joey Furman forever from his left leg. ![]() T ESS L ANDERS WOULD ALWAYS remember exactly where she was and what she was doing when The Devil’s Elbow roller coaster went flying off its track, shooting straight out into the air and hanging there for a few seconds, before giving in to gravity and plummeting straight to the ground. ![]()
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